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B A R D - C A F E

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Bard - a poet-singer.

Look into Encyclopedia Britannica Online for the original meaning of the word bard as well as for the history of its meaning.

Here is an excerpt for those who do not have access to it:
Bard: a poet, especially one who writes impassioned, lyrical, or epic verse. Bards were originally Celtic composers of eulogy and satire; the word came to mean more generally a tribal poet-singer gifted in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds. As early as the 1st century AD, the Latin author Lucan referred to bards as the national poets or minstrels of Gaul and Britain. ...

From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
bard noun
Pronunciation: 'bärd
Etymology: Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish
Date: 15th century

1 a : a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds b : a composer, singer, or declaimer of epic or heroic verse
2 : POET
- bard^.ic /'bär-dik/ adjective

What's new

Our local pages:

Informational pages
- Articles, News, etc.
- Our Bulletin Board(Concerts and other events)
- BardAfisha by Dimitry Sokolov - KSP news from Russia. (We no longer host this page on our server but refer to its new location where it is updated by D.Sokolov)
  BardAfisha - version of Mikhail Sukhanov
Clubs, Associations, Memorials.
- KSP "Poluostrov", Northern California (San Fransisco and vicinity).
- Assosiation "ARKA"
- Baku Club of Bard Songs.
Collections (texts, audio, photo, ..) and archives
- Audio (mostly) Collections
  - KSP-page by Dmitry Vasilevsky (with many audio files).
  - Audio-page by Andre Bakulin. Lots of old songs by Yury Kukin, Alexander Dolsky, Mikhail Nozhkin, Vladimir Lanzberg, Bulat Okudzhava, Boris Almazov, Viktor Shutilov, Alexey Brunov, Alexander Vahratimov, Mikhail Treger, Yuli Kim, "Poslednij Shans", and others.. (in realaudio and mp3) (some additions in 2002)
  - Mikel Lavrentyev's audio collection
  - VRAG Records by Vladimir Ragimov.
  - Authors from Central and Northern Ural (Sverdlovsk aka Ekaterinburg region) by Alexey Mamarin.
  - Songs by authors from South Urals (Chelyabinsk region), including Yana Simon (Bykova), Julia Meshkovaya and others.
  - PhysTech-Songs - Guest concert at the 50th Annivessary of Moscow PhysTech (MIPT)
  - Irina Zhukova - author and performer. Page by Valery Fooksman and Anatoly Georgievskij
  - Combined collection of audio files
  - East Coast Festival (June and October 2001, June and October 2002, June and October 2003, June and October 2004 ) Audio (from KSPUS)
- Photo Collections
  - Photo gallery of bards by A.Golyanov
  - Festival Photos:
    - 1999 by Alexandra Barabash
    - 8th (June 2002) (by Igor Roshchin)
    - 8th (May 2001)
    - 9th (October 2001) (temporarily down)
    - May 2003
    - May 2004
    - Slet Halabala-2005 September 10-11, 2005.
    - May 13-14, 2006.
    - Slet "Ah, Zapad" May 12, 2007.
    - Slet HalaBala-2007 September 8-9, 2007.
  - Photos from concerts (in San Diego, California unless noted differently):
    - Markman and Shtromilo June 1, 2002
    - Vikhorev & Poloskin August 10, 2002.
    - Vadim Pevzner August 24, 2002.
    - Alexander Nikitin & Pietor Lusvardi August 25, 2002.
    - Vadim Egorov
      - in San Diego, CA December 14, 2002,
      - in Rochester, NY December 28, 2002.
    - Aleksandr Dulov March 8, 2003.
    - Vladimir Kapger March 29, 2003.
    - Igor Kuz'min and Evgeniya Raizer "Solo dlya dvoih" May 3, 2003.
    - Viktor Luferov December 7, 2003.
    - Svetlana Vetrova April 18, 2004.
    - Sergey Bohantsev April 24, 2004.
    - Tatyana & Sergey Nikitiny May 22, 2004.
    - Vadim Egorov May 14, 2005.
    - Alexander Baryudin November 13, 2005.
    - Andrey Kramarenko May 6, 2006
    - Aleksandr Medvedenko (Dov) May 27, 2006
    - Kiskachi & Chelyapov June 18, 2006
    - Alina Simonova August 12, 2006
    - Nikolay Yakimov & Mikhail Basin August 20, 2006
    - Dmitry Kimelfeld and Vladimir Novikov, December 17, 2006
    - Okudzhava Festival - San Diego concert, March 25, 2007
    - Dmitry Bogdanov in San Diego March 31, 2007
    - Slet "Ah, Zapad" May 12, 2007
    - Sergey Konovalov May 14, 2007
    - Olga Chikina and Grigoriy Danskoy October 2, 2007
    - Tatyana and Sergey Nikitiny October 5, 2007
    - Ilya Vinnik Novermber 10, 2007
    - Vladimir Frumkin December 2, 2007
    (by Igor Roshchin)
- Mixed Collections
  - To the memory of Bulat Okudzhava (page by Julia Sereda and Andrei Blinushov)
  - KSP page by Stas Kolenikov
  - Vladimir Krastoshevsky - author and performer from Pennsylvania
  - Other Collections
List of related links

Different pages use different cyrillic character sets: KOI-8 and Win-1251, and some ALT (in the ftp collection). You can get KOI8 drivers/fonts for different systems from the /pub/Tools directory of our FTP server, and from KOI-8 site by Andrey Chernov

List of maintainers of Bard-Cafe projects, and contributors

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Your contributions are very welcome! If you have any interesting related materials in an electronic format, contact us at "bard-cafe 'at' komkon.org" (please do not publish this address on your website - it gets added to the spam-lists.)

If you think that anything on this site violates any copyrights or anything else, please contact us.

Bar[d]man: Igor Roshchin aka StR